Antone DeJesus drove in four runs and Stephen Harrold gave up just one earned run as the Boulders took over first place with a 5-2 with over the New Jersey Jackals.

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It seemed unlikely, but Antone DeJesus' scorching August got even hotter Sunday.

The Rockland Boulders' center fielder hit a two-run home run and a two-run triple as the Boulders beat the New Jersey Jackals 5-2 to take over the Can-Am League lead by half a game.

DeJesus entered the game hitting .343 for August and had scored five runs and driven in four in the previous three games — all against league-leading New Jersey.

On Sunday he erased a 2-1 deficit with a two-run, third-inning home run off starter Keith Bilodeau.

His seventh-inning, two-run, two-out triple down the first-base line came against reliever Shaun Ellis. The hit broke a 2-2 tie, making a hard-luck loser out of Bilodeau, who was charged with three runs on four hits in 6 2/3 innings.

It was a great bounce-back win for Stephen Harrold (6-3) after two bad outings. Harrold went seven innings, allowing three hits and two runs, only one earned, before 4,166 fans at Provident Bank Park.

Harrold was helped by right fielder Ryan Stovall's sensational, home-run-saving catch in the second. Stovall jumped high over the low short-porch wall to snag Joe Talley's drive with none aboard in a 0-0 game.

"It was amazing," Boulders pitching coach Bobby Jones said. "That was definitely a game-changer. ... I think it lifted everyone up. Right now it's tough to score runs. Something like that is a big pick-me-up for the whole team."

Harrold allowed one unearned run in the third on an unorthodox 6-4-5, bases-loaded double play but avoided the long ball that had haunted him in two straight losses.

After issuing two one-out walks, he surrendered a game-tying double to Richard Arias in the seventh but then got out of a second-and-third, one-out jam with two strikeouts.

That set the stage for DeJesus's heroics in the bottom of the frame.

"I have finally gotten into a rhythm at the plate," DeJesus said. "I'm trying to be a little more aggressive and things are starting to fall my way."